New preprint from Mangul Lab @USC in collaboration with David Koslicki. The project was led by Varuni @ ICML 2025 and @jaquejbrito We developed TAMPA an easy-to-use method that allows scientists to easily interpret and interact with taxonomic profiles biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is a nice writeup about the recent joint work with myself, PM @[email protected] @pashadag.bsky.social, Bob Harris, Antonio Blanca, and Mahdi Belbasi. Penn State EECS

Last day of One Health Microbiome Center Kickstart Bioinformatics Workshop with David Koslicki on whole genome shotgun metagenomics! What a phenomenal week! A HUGE thanks to all TAs & faculty (& those who fed us microbe themed cookies!)! The future looks bright w/ these students at the helm!

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are pleased to welcome Thomas Sharpton for a seminar on the microbial genetic bases of chronic disease. Dr. Sharpton is the founding director of the Oregon State University Microbiome Initiative. See you Friday in person, 11AM. A trainee lunch will follow the seminar in AVBS.

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Really nice work by David Koslicki and Tessa Pierce Ward, PhD (@bluegenes.bsky.social) et al.: "Deriving confidence intervals for mutation rates across a wide range of evolutionary distances using FracMinHash " pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37344105/ - k-mers <=> sketching <=> ANI #bioinformatics

Happy to help lead a part of such a great institute!